Cell Phones, WIFI-Age Devices
In this video, Martin Blank spends about 29 minutes speaking on "Cell Phones, WIFI-Age Devices" at the 42nd Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Martin Blank
MARTIN BLANK, Ph.D., received a Bachelor of Science Degree from City College of New York and earned PhD’s from Columbia University, New York City and Cambridge University, England. He is currently a Special Lecturer in the Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics at Columbia University, where he was Associate Professor for over 40 years. During this period, he edited 12 books and published over 200 papers. Overpowered, his latest book, is on the dangers of electromagnetic fields in our environment.
Dr. Blank has worked for the U.S. Office of Naval Research, as well as several industrial labs. He has also organized scientific meetings, including two World Congresses on Electricity and Magnetism in Biology and Medicine, and the first Gordon Research Conference on Bioelectrochemistry.
Additionally, he has served on the editorial boards of several journals, including Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine and edited the 2009 issue of Pathophysiology on biological effects of EMF. He was one of the organizers of the Bioinitiative Report, where he authored the section on stress proteins. He served as the President of the Bioelectromagnetics Society 1997 through 1998, and has been an invited expert on EMF safety for the Canadian Parliament, for the House Committee on Natural Resources and Energy in Vermont, and for the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil.
Dr. Blank further writes in his book Overpowered on what science tells us about the dangers of cell phones and other WIFI-Age devices. Cell phones have become ubiquitous fixtures of 21st century life – suctioned to our ears and stuck in our pockets. Yet, we’ve all heard whispers that these essential little devices give you brain cancer. Could it be true?
Overpowered helps us understand the biological effects resulting from low, non-thermal levels on non-ionizing electromagnetic radiations coming not only from cell phones, but many other devices we use in our home and offices every day like computers, hair dryers and microwaves.
It is generally accepted that there should be a limit on exposure of the public to electromagnetic fields, however, industry pushes the envelope. Dr. Blank recommends taking precautions and teaches steps we can take in our daily lives es to reduce exposures.
Dr. Blank may be contacted by his e-mail [email protected].
Transcription
Thank you for the introduction. Every machine has its own peculiarities. And the thing is that I can't. It's a new one. When I saw my position on the program, I wasn't quite sure how I'd fit in. But it turns out that the last speaker actually gave a fair introduction to some of what I'm going to be talking about in connection with these heat shock proteins that will come later. What I wanted to show you first is the book that I have put together. I published a lot, but never a book in the or at least I edited books. But the thing is, this was an attempt to kind of get the message out to the public. This is an area that is generally been dominated by physicists and engineers, and it's really quite technical so that people don't really feel they are intimidated. They don't want to get to it. But the fact of the matter is that electromagnetic fields are all over the place. I mean, ever since Edison invented the light bulb, we just have been constantly bombarded by electromagnetic fields. And it's progressed not only from power, electric power, which powers the electric light bulb, but now we've moved up into higher frequencies and we've got all these devices that are around. I'm sure everyone here has his own little device sitting there watching their little cell phones and various devices that they carry around with them. In fact, I've seen people walking, mostly young people who walk along the streets with their friends. And each one is engaged with the little device, his own little device. And they're almost totally oblivious to the ones that they're walking with. My wife and I were in a restaurant not too long ago. And at the next table was a couple having dinner.
But they were each engrossed in their own little device and they were really not paying attention to them, but to each other. And I asked the person. I asked the man. I said, excuse me. You don't mind if I ask you a question? Are you two having dinner together?
And he kind of looked at me, but that's the way things are now.
So not only has it influenced the biological reactions, which is what I'll talk about, but it's begun to influence our way of life to the point where there are vast changes. But let me move on.
The most common device now that people that pretty much everyone seems to have is a cell phone and cell phones have been characterized as perhaps the new cigarets. Maureen Dowd, The New York Times pointed out that this